skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then there was the time they tested shock absorbers on a car's bumper exploding in a fire and sending the bumper flying away. They couldn't replicate it.

They spoke to a woman with scars on her legs from a bumper that hit her after shock absorbers on a burning car exploded and sent the bumper flying away.

So they called it confirmed, since it could happen, they just couldn't get everything right in the lab.

I know it's entertainment first and science second, but a complete reversal of policy just because there is someone you're not willing to look at and call a liar? Weak.
The fact that their safety systems (Which anyone would expect to be separate from the traffic control systems) are also affected makes me wonder about the "computer glitch" angle.
And RandomForests taken over from SVMs ;)

In seriousness when you look around at what's happening both in practice and in academia I would say RandomForests/SVM/Neural Networks all stand pretty equally and have different strengths. If you've just got rows and rows of data with numeric, categorical and missing values it's hard to beat the speed and quality of shoving it in a RandomForest. However to my knowledge SVMs are still better at solving NLP categorization tasks and handling sparse, high dimensional data. And Neural Networks always seem to be popping up solving very weird and/or hard problems.
Pushing people to Facebook does not subvert the Charmin brand because Charmin's product is not a website. Now if LinkedIn pushed people to "go to facebook.com/linkedin", that would subvert LinkedIn's brand. Which is of course why LinkedIn does not do that.
Very well put. I'm not a huge fan of php, but find this possibility of resurgence (particularly because I use the language for my day job) very interesting.
This is also true for sports related searches. On Google when I search for the Dallas Cowboys I get the scores of their 2 most recent games and with one click I can have their full schedule without ever leaving Google. On Bing I get their last games score and a few upcoming games, but if I want more info then it takes me to foxsports.com.
Great, now if I ever get to fly first class I won't be able to enjoy it.
And what's so wrong about them? I bought those when I was a student and I was pretty happy with the result. They're very reasonable quality and they're definitely enough for any work that doesn't require 3d, or heavy virtualisation. They're also very likely to be supported by linux - a long time has passed since that hardware became available.
It looks pretty interesting to do the video mixing at the source.

I would just recommend the developers to use GitHub instead of http://sourceforge.net/projects/snowmix/. That would ease the contributions.
Perhaps is the fact that the iOS6 has problems, and people are experiencing crashes and freezes from their iPhones?
Enlightening response, could you please post links to papers that explain online training of SVM?

Also, I found this paper [1] on unsupervised feature detection, if you have some additional material, I'll really appreciate if you could post it!

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.44....
>Take a walk through half of Baltimore, friend, and you will discover that you will get the shit kicked out of you for being white.

Hey there! I'm a white guy who has taken walks through Baltimore before— in fact, all of Baltimore. What you're talking about isn't at all systemic like the shit the OP has to deal with. Yes, white people are victims of racially-motivated crimes. In fact, some of them are event prosecuted as hate crimes! But it's not systemic, so comparing it to white-on-black racism isn't fair.
Why your car isn't electric
The strong selling point of PHP for a long time was cheap hosting. Combine that with a fast learning curve and you're set.

Nowadays, it's not so clear cut price wise, but PHP took a strong advance in term of user base - look at the number of libraries, projects, and jobs (!) available in PHP, vs python or ruby.
"Empirically" still implies more formality than the purely anecdotal evidence presented here, unless there's more to it that pg is not sharing with us.
You shouldn't forget about PSR-0 / http://www.php-fig.org/
If you ever figure out a way to game HN, then contact PG privately, but
unless you know him personally, do not expect a response from him
confirming or denying the existence of the problem. HN uses a lot of
anti-abuse code that is not publicly known (e.g. secret sauce), and it's
best for everyone if the secrets remain secret.

I have privately reported a half dozen or so abuse problems over the
last four or five years. Though I live only thirty minutes south of PG,
I don't actually know him, so I always give him an "easy out" by telling
him no response is necessary when reporting abuse problems. I also
refuse to pry regarding the anti-abuse code, even though I have to fight
my own excessive curiosity. Ya, I've always wanted to know how it works,
but I also understand why I shouldn't be told. It kind of sucks for me,
but it's better for everyone if the anti-abuse code continues working.

If you're good with search engines and have a ton of time to kill
reading posts, then you'll find mentions of "voting ring detection" on
HN, but as noted, the details are not public. Anyone who has studied
discussion forum design will tell how hellishly difficult voting ring
detection is to implement effectively in an open voting environment with
(mostly) anonymous accounts.

As for the increasing self-promotion seen in submissions, well, it's
always been a problem, and worse, it's also a very difficult problem to
address effectively. If suitably formalized, you might be able to prove
both of these problems to be undecidable (unsolvable, insoluble, or
whatever pedantic term is currently being used for impossible). The only
good news is, even when you can prove a problem can't be completely
solved, there is still the potential of finding a more effective
partial solution.
RxApps Uses Texting, Other Tech to Track Mental Health
I honestly like having 7 choices for which CPU I want in a computer. It's the main reason I chose Lenovo over Dell for my most recent computer.

Just because Apple sells items with a few options doesn't mean every other company should.
I want one! That's awesome.
Google's verbatim search option will give you the results you want:

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/11/google-verbatim-search...
In for vanilla registration. I don't have either of the two services you allow.
Whoa, the shapes and layout of the content of the GameMaker screenshots/images brought back memories of Garry Kitchen's GameMaker[0] which I used to make a balloon racing game using the stock sprites from [1] and the background from [2]. The game might have been one of the instructional ones, because now, 27 years later, I can't conceive that I came up with the idea for a game like I remember it being.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Kitchen%27s_GameMaker

[1] http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/G/Gary_Kitchen%27s_Gamemaker...

[2] http://www.gb64.com/Screenshots/G/Gary_Kitchen%27s_Gamemaker...
Investing "Gangnam Style"
I would challenge you to try Million Short vs Google for really long tail searches (example; gluten free cookie recipes). There's also a side-by-side comparison page setup in the same fashion as the bingiton challenge. millionshortiton.com
Congrats I say! But, there is no difference between 3 and 6 dollars per month. Simply just put it at 5 for 2000MB knowing that not everyone will use all 2000. Keep things simple. You also need to tell me a bit more about your data recovery plans etc and possibly where its hosted, AWS might add some weight.
In Australia, the domain is now redirecting to bing.com, has been since the release - though it worked for a little while.
Everyone probably knows this, but PHP's Smarty template engine (http://www.smarty.net) is really awesome.

I've yet to see a better one in any language - it has things like Unix-like pipe chaining of filters, user defined functions, and intelligent caching built in.

I reduced the number of lines in one codebase I worked on by 70% through use of Smarty.
Yeap we got spoiled with earlier classes: Algorithms by Tim Roughgarden, Machine Learning by Andrew Ng, and many more. We probably need to follow a class on gratitude.

Oh well, to be fair I would donate quite a lot for each course that I enjoyed.
This is a great point. Especially seeing him work so hard while he was Sick. Very. Driven. And these products were like gifts, when we consider what all of the nay-sayers wanted to force-feed us (lookin at lazy record companies, phone-companies, and box-y PC companies, ect).
How long do the batteries last?
It is not such a huge problem when you take several courses at once. Sadly they run them only twice a year, each time I try to follow as many as possible. I cannot follow PGM because it requires too much of my time, I'd have to abandon 2 or 3 other courses. YMMV.
Unionization is the wrong response to increasing manufacturing efficiency. The correct response is finding something else to do, with the help of subsidized retraining and education, if you prefer.
Really surprised they were able to make a call with it.
Hmm... actually yeah that is a really good point.

As much as I don't want to sound like a conspiracy person, that level of connection between those components is a bit too much to believe. Especially in Australia where they have insanely high standards for construction/electrical engineering.
And that's their home page? What do these people do all day? Blow bubbles for shits and giggles?
Clearly, Steam's web interface is not fully-prepared to handle non-games. They use the word "game" throughout the store page for all of these products.
I think he was being sarcastic, hinting that network computerized auto-mobile's having a similar glitch would be truly devastating.

If mankind can't get a tunnels systems to work all the time, then what about our plans to introduce computer controlled cars? A glitch could wipe out millions of lives before being patched, and even then if they get patched that also introduces huge areas of vulnerability.

I'm sure a stealth program that loads onto a car and waits till a date to kill the occupants will be used by someone or a nation-state in the future.
I would like to see a metal version. Paper does not seem like a durable material, and for the price of 3 Subway footlongs, I demand satisfaction.
Wow, just wow.

I gave a talk on the Internet of Things (it was an IEEE event) and talked about how new problems could be attacked with nearly free compute + network. This is such a great example of that in practice.

Can you imagine what they could do to cost reduce just to an ad unit with a bit of pre-paid cell minutes?

EDIT: I am surprised they didn't pull the sim card, put it in a nominally complete phone and make a call on it.
Except that article you link does a terrible job of presenting this. They look only at a small sample (20 accidents), made up only of accidents which had both fatalities and survivors.

When what you want for a real risk assessment is to consider first the accident rate among commercial flights, then the percentage of accidents which have fatalities (and also the rate at which those accidents have any survivors).
Hollywood Stock Exchange also holds a patent for the core principles behind prediction market games like these (http://www.google.ca/patents?id=n2sXAAAAEBAJ).
And the 'most people survive' is something of a misnomer.

So, if we consider only the accidents that are least likely to be survivable (which are a tiny percentage of all accidents), we find that they're not likely to be survivable?
That article is one in a series. Perhaps I was wrong and it is not clear or well-argued without the context of the broader series to draw from. It's a shame because it is actually painstaking in its argumentation and attention to nuance, and by far the most insightful series of its kind that I've ever read.

When you say "chances are you are a bigot" you may technically be correct in the sense that from a random population of "I'm not a racist but" statements, more than 50% of them are said by bigots (in fact, I would probably estimate this much higher, as bigots say it more frequently, in my experience). As for my-literal-self, and almost everyone who is reading these comments (well educated, left-leaning startup enthusiasts), I have significant other evidence that I have to weigh against that proposition (i.e. my recollection of my lifetime's past events and explicit knowledge of my views and beliefs), so if I were ever inclined to use such a phrase I wouldn't actually be making a bigoted statement. Unfortunately, some people who are less thoughtful and less capable of a nuanced understanding of argumentation would immediately turn off their brains and assume whatever this counterfactual self said next was bigoted. People like that have bad rhetorical hygiene and arguing with them should be avoided if you don't want to contract memetically transmitted diseases.

Saying that bingo cards are a "useful tool" is doing a disservice to the word tool. They are, if not actively harmful, merely a form of entertainment, and no more a tool than Star Trek VI.
Stop Pagination Now
This reminded me of Synchronous fireflies. There are at least 2 kinds on them (Asian and North American).

Here is the night time video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Vy7NZTGos

Here is an article on this: http://www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience/fireflies.htm
The crashing bug in VC++ 2012's bug finding feature
I included Apple's comment, which seemed to be out of context to you, because it was not on the top-10 list, but it was the next paragraph in the linked article, and seemed to be interesting so you could have a view of the mayor tech players.

"Apple's amazing success with low R&D expenditure shows how small the relationship between R&D and great products is."

Also, it's not my intention to make a comparison between Apple and MS here, but I think it's clear that MS spends a lot more because it has a broader set of products and services.
Furthermore, you need to define "great product". Because what would seem to be great to consumers, may be totally useless to enterprises. And that is reflected today in the market.
Quora has more mass appeal and is more of a time waster site than Stack Exchange. It's like a smarter, more gamified, Facebook-y version of Yahoo answers. The friends I introduced to it said they can spend all day reading about "what it's like to be a hitman" and asking Mark Cuban questions about his youth and stuff like that. Some of the questions re: what server to use, etc are answered by founders promoting their companies but nevertheless I think Quora has 2 valuable virtues:

1) You can get firsthand info from the horse's mouth, like read about what it's like to be a 25 year old self made millionaire, or what it's like to work with ashton kushter, or what it's like to get an investment on shark tank. You can ask what it's like to get a life sentence in prison and a real prisoner will respond. You can ask Larry Summers his opinion on something and he'll respond.

2) Quora organizes the information on the internet. Some of the stuff you could find by googling, but who just googles random questions? The flow of the site is pretty nice because you go from one interesting answer to suggested related questions.

(I am just a Quora user although I know a bunch of people who work there.)
Protos is awesome... http://derdesign.github.com/protos/
I don't know. I'm not a techie but a math student and most of my searches are math related, not technology related. When I took the Bing challenge Google beat Bing 5-0.
I'm curious when that screenshot was taken. If it was at 8 am EST (5 am PST) that would make perfect sense.
patent issue, anyone?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/22/after-surviving-the-shark-t...
Device turnover on mobile is 2-3 years. Things are picking up with more balanced competition and the rise of mobile to dwarf desktop.

You can't get an interoperable spec of a new edition of a language the size of JS in less than three years, for any such language. Not for Dart (which is still changing and by Google's own plans nowhere near ready to standardize) or TypeScript (also new, and tracking ES6). Java, C#, Python, Ruby, etc. were built to today's state over years or decades.

Bite-sized specs are much better. Small libraries on github and universal edge-caching, even better. Could we have bite-sized specs for JS?

As I speculated at Strange Loop last week, with a few final gaps in the language filled (Object.observe, slated for ES7, weak refs and event loops, and definitely macros! see http://sweetjs.org/) by a future JS standard, we will be "all but done".

Working away at this goal,
That's out of context; Schneier said there isn't one that's significantly better (which he defined as "orders of magnitude") than SHA-2. But they're all strictly better than SHA-2.

If you're writing a new application, by all means use the new standard. If you have an existing application or have to interface with existing frameworks, use SHA-2.
The problem isn't that social login buttons harm your brand or look ugly, it is that by using social logins you are working to expand the social networks user base and not your own.

Online companies are largely valued by the size of their userbase and by working to build Fb or twitter's userbase rather than your own, you are sacrificing the value you add to your own company for the sake of the social network that a user signs in with.
According to the Keccak home page, it can be used for "keyed or randomized modes simply by prepending a key or salt to the input message."

http://keccak.noekeon.org/
Basic cd tricks
Feynman started by investigating the wobbles of a spinning plate, and ended up with Quantum Electrodynamics. Looking at the metronome video, I found myself thinking, "There's got to be something deep there".

It'd be really cool if the metronomes turned out to be a model of the quantum vacuum, and the patterns running though the array of oscillators turned out to be virtual particles winking into and out of existence. (Hey, I can dream, can't I?)

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edit: spelling
Couple of ways:

1. Ask a friend (Googler) to invite you as a guest, not sure how many people can be really invited.

2. Interview there.
Agreed. Although how many of these projects actually get done for the amount allotted? Maybe it'll end up costing 100B or not get done at all after spending 10B. Whenever anything costs more than like 1M, we get scope insensitivity and have no idea what we are paying for or what it's costing.
Well, you could pull out two accidents out of the list where everyone died and say "most people die in plane crashes", which would be incorrect as well. Hence the term misnomer :-) As an engineer I would be inclined to say "if you find yourself in a survivable crash, the following things help increase your odds, ..." which keeps the cool bits about back of the plane vs first class, exits vs non-exits, but side-steps the probability question of surviving a gross malfunction in a commercial jet.
"Drupal's custom content types, custom fields, and Views all allow developers to express complex logic that would, in any other development environment, be expressed as code and committed to version control"

And that, in a nutshell, describes why Drupal's adoption rate is as high as it is compared to development frameworks developers actually enjoy working with. No fucking code. Non-developers can actually get results with the system without having to resort to the kind of miserable hoop jumping we developers subject ourselves to in an attempt to make sure nobody else on the team fucks something up.

View got changed? Log in and change it back. Absolutely, positively MUST have an ongoing log of changes to your view/content type/custom field? All of these are exportable to code and can either be imported raw or live in modules.

I suspect you've worked with exportables at some point so I simply mention this for any spectators that aren't aware there are a number of strategies for getting your configuration into code (and thus revision control) if that's your thing.

Also, for the uninitiated, apendleton makes an excellent point about deploying config changes from dev/staging to production. It sucks, plain and simple.
It is the only uninterrupted motorway from the east to west sides of Melbourne, but not the only core arterial. There are other roads you can use to get from one side of town to the other. A lot of traffic using the tunnels is just commuter traffic from the east anyway.

The tunnels never were public roads, they didn't exist. You can still drive on pretty much the entire length of the West Gate Freeway, right up to the tunnel portals without paying tolls. There are some short sections of motorway though that were previously un-tolled but are now tolled, though there has been some pretty extensive upgrades.

That said I'm no way in favour of City Link, but the real core 'arterial' for urban commuting is our public transport system. :-)
Best. Bookmarklet. Tutorial. Ever.

Thank you.

I, too, needed something like this forever. Every time I see a long article, I complain about the lack of a tl;dr.

Unfortunately, I am not so optimistic about humans creating the content. You guys have a really, really hard job. Creating the right tools is easy. Convincing people to create tl;dr's is hard.

I'm really curious about how you are planning to solve this problem.

I really do hope that you'll succeed though : ]

Edit: Also, for me, this tool is great for articles that are new. Assuming you don't have enough contributors at the moment, after seeing a few articles that don't have tl;dr, I probably use the tool less and less everyday. Until I forget about it. I'm sure I am not the only one.
Same here from Argentina. It worked when I fist tried it out a few days ago, but it just redirects to bing.com now...
While I've bashed PHP as much next guy, these are the facts:

-Take away PHP and the internet would break. The vast majority of websites are either written in PHP or have a PHP back end.

-The LAMP/LNMP stack is by far one of the most deployed web server configuration.

-PHP is extremely well documented and it's been around so long that it's easy to find solutions on the web.

PHP is the Model T of web languages: people love to laugh at it because it's old and ugly but it nearly single-handedly revolutionized the landscape. I for one applaud any efforts to revive and improve this language.
I read somewhere that the mud is not only used as you mentioned but also as a very low bitrate communications medium. Is this true?
Man that is going to be one epic lawsuit when you factor in the cost for each of those commuter hours.
sure, that tracks. I think our main difference is over whether or not the stacks are fundamentally the same.

The legacy apps can still run the same Rails version, can still run the same Ruby version, and can still deploy using `git push,` it's just a more powerful abstraction.

To me, this migration feels like the equivalent of "Oh hey, you've gotta upgrade your database version and download a few security patches for your OS", which any enterprise-level company is going to be more than familiar with.

It's not like they came out and said "well bugger, we don't support Rails 2 anymore, you gotta rewrite all your app code to work in Rails 3." I would understand any frustration then.

shrugs
Wow. This is very daring attempt. It looks like those singing Hallmark greeting cards but way supersized into a cell phone.

If this becomes cheap enough, it's a new venue for publishing.
Seconded. It was pretty obvious that it was a phone about 20 seconds in. Watching them finally figure out the keypad was in fact a keypad around 8 minutes became too stressful to watch.
A bicycle would be good in such circumstances!
Quite a few friends of mine took this test. 4 of the 6 of us who felt we almost certainly choose google could not load the results page. Not exactly a scientific study but I thought it was fishy. Anyone run into similar results?